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GENES & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 253-266Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1360106
Keywords
organogenesis; pancreatic beta cells; Pdx1; MODY; enhancer; cis-element; foregut differentiation
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [U19 DK042502] Funding Source: Medline
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Pdx1 (IPF-1 in humans, which is altered in MODY-4) is essential for pancreas development and mature P-cell function. Pdx1 is expressed dynamically within the developing foregut, but how its expression characteristics are linked to the various steps of organ specification, differentiation, and function is unknown. Deletion of a conserved enhancer region (Area I-II-III) from Pdx1 produced a hypomorphic allele (Pdx1(Delta I-II-III)) with altered timing and level of expression, which was studied in combination with wild-type and protein-null alleles. Lineage labeling in homozygous Area I-II-III deletion mutants (Pdx1(Delta I-II-III/Delta I-II-III)) revealed lack of ventral pancreatic bud specification and early-onset hypoplasia in the dorsal bud. Acinar tissue formed in the hypoplastic dorsal bud, but endocrine maturation was greatly impaired. While Pdx1(-/-) (protein-null) mice have nonpancreatic abnormalities (e.g., distorted pylorus, absent Brunner's glands), these structures formed normally in Pdx1(Delta I-II-III/Delta I-II-III) and Pdx1(Delta I-II-III/-) mice. Surprisingly, heterozygous (Pdx1(+/Delta I-II-III)) mice had abnormal islets and a more severe prediabetic condition than Pdx1(+/-) mice. These findings provide in vivo evidence of the differential requirements for the level of Pdx1 gene activity in the specification and differentiation of the various organs of the posterior foregut, as well as in pancreas and gut endocrine cell differentiation.
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